Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Jamie ButtersChief Content Officer, Automotive News

​Foreshadowing the Automotive Industry​​In his role as Chief Content Officer for Automotive News, Jamie Butters is responsible for all newsroom activities related to content generation, and aligns real-time journalism with the publication’s weekly print issue.

Prior to joining Automotive News in 2018, Jamie worked for 10 years at Bloomberg News, where he was a reporter, auto editor, and Transportation Team leader. Before that, he was an auto reporter and business editor at the Detroit Free Press, and a business reporter at the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky.

Jamie studied journalism at the University of Iowa in his hometown, Iowa City, before graduating from the University of Kentucky with a finance degree. He also was a 2005-06 Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Jamie will discuss how the automotive industry is very healthy, but wary, as it faces not only a combination of expensive technological and regulatory changes – think autonomous and electric vehicles – but also a potentially devastating trade and labor disruption this year.